Notion Quotes
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The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'
Jonas Gahr Store -
The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.
Etienne Gilson
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Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).
Adolf Hitler -
Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.
George W. Casey, Jr. -
Homophobia is easier for black people where black people are concerned. They feel they have the right to correct me on my behavior. There is this notion that homosexuality is something that white people do.
David McAlmont -
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
Wallace Stegner -
The notion that you're not supposed to show how you feel is really detrimental, not just to yourself but to the way you end up treating other people.
Miles Heizer -
My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.
Courtney Milan
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The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.
Ben Aaronovitch -
You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.
Shailene Woodley -
People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
Emily Susan Rapp -
Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
Jonathan Swift -
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
George Bernard Shaw
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James -
Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.
Meredith Vieira -
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen -
It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
Mike Leigh -
The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.
Barack Obama -
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
Charles Hugh Smith
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The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.
Thomas Sowell -
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
Lord Byron -
The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
Gelek Rimpoche -
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
Allan Kaprow